Pohang earthquake occurred on November 15, 2017, with a magnitude of 5.4. The damage of the structure caused by the Pohang earthquake was the most significant in 4-story piloti-type buildings, where the damage patterns were different according to the location of columns and walls at the first story. One　building with a staircase at a corner shows shear failure at columns, and Another building with a staircase in the middle shows no failure or shear failure at staircase walls. Therefore, two different piloti-type buildings were selected; one has a staircase at a corner and another has in the middle, and the seismic behavior of the buildings were examined by nonlinear dynamic analysis applying a ground motion measured at Pohang. Analytical model well simulated the actual behavior of the piloti-type buildings during the earthquake. Analysis results showed that walls have an insufficient shear strength wherever the location of the staircase is and columns with insufficient transverse reinforcement could be failed when the staircase is located at a corner. Conclusively, structural engineers should design columns and walls in piloti-type buildings to possess sufficient capacity according to the location of staircase.

There are differences in seismic behavior between non-skewed bridges and skewed bridges due to in-plane rotations caused by pounding between the skewed deck and its abutments during strong earthquake. Many advances have been made in developing design codes and guidelines for dynamic analyses of non-skewed bridges. However, there remain significant uncertainties with regard to the structural response of skewed bridges caused by unusual seismic response characteristics. The purpose of this study is performing non-linear time history analysis of the bridges using abutment-soil interaction model considering pounding between the skewed deck and its abutments, and analyzing global seismic behavior characteristics of the skewed bridges to assess the possibility of unseating. Refined bridge model with abutment back fill, shear key and elastomeric bearing was developed using non-linear spring element. In order to evaluate the amplification of longitudinal and transverse displacement response, non-linear time history analysis was performed for single span bridges. Far-fault and near-fault ground motions were used as input ground motions. According to each parameter, seismic behavior of skewed bridges was evaluated.

If scour is occurred at shallow foundation of bridge, seismic performance of the bridge will be reduced. In order to evaluate accurate seismic response of bridge according to scour depths, modeling of foundation reflecting scour effect is important. In this study, taking into account the effect of the reduction in embedment depth of the shallow foundation by scouring, the soil around the foundation is modelled as an equivalent soil spring with various stiffness. Seismic fragility analyses for 3 types of bridges subjected to 4 types of ground motions classified into Site Class A, B, C, D are evaluated according to several scour depths. From the fragility analysis results, it can be observed that the deeper the scour depth, the higher probability of exceeding damage states. Also, seismic failure probability of asymmetric bridge is higher than that of symmetric bridge.

Permanent deformation plays a key role in performance based earthquake resistant design. In order to estimate permanent deformation after earthquake, it is essential to secure reliable response history analysis(RHA) as well as earthquake scenario. This study focuses on permanent deformation of an inverted T-type wall under earthquake. The study is composed of two separate parts. The first one is on the verification of RHA and the second one is on an effect of input earthquake motion. The former is discussed in companion paper and the latter in this paper. In order to investigate the effect of an input earthquake motion on the permanent deformation, three bins of spectral matched real earthquake records with different magnitude, regions, epicentral distance are constructed. Parametric study was performed using the verified RHA through the companion paper for each earthquake records in the bins. The most influential parameter affecting permanent displacement is magnitude. The other parameters describing earthquake motion are not significant enough to increase permanent displacement of the inverted T-type wall except for energy related parameters(AI, CI, SEI).

Permanent deformation plays a key role in performance based earthquake resistant design. In order to estimate permanent deformation after earthquake, it is essential to secure reliable response history analysis(RHA) as well as earthquake scenario. This study focuses on permanent deformation of an inverted T-type wall under earthquake. The study is composed of two separate parts. The first one is on the verification of RHA and the second one is on an effect of input earthquake motion. The former is discussed in this paper and the latter in the companion paper. The verification is conducted via geotechnical dynamic centrifuge test in prototype scale. Response of wall stem, ground motions behind the wall obtained from RHA matched pretty well with physical test performed under centrifugal acceleration of 50g. The rigorously verified RHA is used for parametric study to investigate an effect of input earthquake motion selection in the companion paper.

In the moment frame subjected to earthquake loads, beam-column joint is structurally important for ductile behavior of a system. ACI Committee 352 proposed guidelines for designing beam-column joint details. The guidelines, however, need to be updated because of the lack of data regarding several factors that may improve the performance of joints. The purpose of this study is to investigate the seismic performance of reinforced concrete exterior joints with high-strength materials and unbonded tendons. Three specimens with different joint shear demand-to-strength ratios were constructed and tested, where headed bars were used to anchor the beam bars into the joint. All specimens showed satisfactory seismic behavior including moment strength of 1.3 times the nominal moment, ductile performance (ductility factor = at least 2.4), and sufficiently large dissipated energy.

Since the execution of structural design by professional structural engineers is not mandatory for small-size buildings in Korea, structural design is conducted by architects or contractors resulting in concern about the seismic safety of the buildings. Therefore, the Korean Structural Engineers Association proposed dedicated structural design criteria in 2012. The criteria were developed based on a deterministic approach in which the structural members are designed only with information of story and span length of the buildings and without structural analyses. However, due to the short time devoted to their development, these criteria miss satisfactory basis and do not deal with structural walls popularly used in Korea. Accordingly, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport launched a research on the 'development of structural performance enhancement technologies for small-size buildings against earthquakes and climate changes'.. As part of this research, this paper intends to establish direction for the preparation of deterministic structural design guidelines for seismic safety of domestic small-size reinforced concrete buildings. To that goal, a typical plan of these buildings is selected considering frames only and frames plus walls, and then design is conducted by changing the number of stories and span length. Next, the seismic performance is analyzed by nonlinear static pushover analysis. The results show that the structural design guidelines should be developed by classifying frames only and frames plus walls. The size and reinforcement of structural elements should be provided in the middle level of the current Korean Building Code and criteria for small buildings by considering story and span length for buildings with frames only, and determined by considering the shape and location of walls and the story and span length as well for buildings with frames plus walls. It is recommended that the design of walls should be conducted by reducing the amount of walls along with symmetrically located walls.

The friction damper can be used for improving the seismic resistance of existing buildings. The damper is often installed in bracing members. The energy dissipation capacity of the damping systems depends on the type of the structure, the configuration of the bracing members, and the property of dampers. In Korea, there are numerous low- to mid-rise reinforced concrete moment frames that were constructed considering only gravity loads. Those frames may be vulnerable for future earthquakes. To resolve the problem, this study developed a toggle bracing system with a high density friction damper. To investigate the improvement of reinforced concrete frames after retrofit using the developed damped system, experimental tests were conducted on frame specimens with and without the damped system. The results showed that the maximum strength, initial stiffness and energy dissipation capacity of the framed with the damped system were much larger than those of the frame without the damped system.

This paper investigates experimentally the confinement effect on concrete. For this purpose, outside lateral reinforcement members made of stainless steel and GFRP were employed. Then, uniaxial compressive tests on concrete cylinders incorporating the members were conducted. A total of 30 cylinder specimens, specifically, 6 unconfined specimens, 12 specimens confined by stainless steel and 12 specimens confined by GFRP, were fabricated. The failure patterns of both unconfined and confined specimens were assessed and discussed based on experimental results. The results proved that the maximum stress and corresponding strains of the cylinders confined using the proposed hoops are increased in comparison with those of the unconfined. This supports that the current work can be used for retrofitting concrete members and structures and thus may lead to increased stability of such structures.

The hysteretic behavior of diagonal reinforced coupling beams is excellent during earthquakes. However, construction of the diagonal reinforced coupling beams is difficult due to complex reinforcement details required by current code procedures (ACI 318-11). Due to the detail requirement, reinforcement congestion and interference among transverse reinforcement always occur during construction field. When the aspect ratio of the beam is large, the interference of reinforcement becomes more serious. The objective of this paper is to simplify the reinforcement details of slender coupling beams by reducing transverse reinforcement around the beam perimeter. For this purpose, high- performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites are used for making coupling beams. Experiments were conducted using three specimens having aspect ratio 3.5. Test results showed that HPFRCC coupling beams with half the transverse reinforcement required by ACI 318-11 provided identical seismic capacities to the corresponding coupling beams having requirement satisfying the requirement specified in ACI 318-11.

In this paper, firstly, acceleration-time histories were generated by varying strong motion duration in the frequency domain for application to a seismically isolated nuclear power structure, so as to examine the effects of strong motion duration on the behavior of the structure. Secondly, real recorded earthquakes were modified to match the target response spectrum based on the revised SRP 3.7.1(2007) and the modified time histories were applied to the analysis of a seismically isolated nuclear power structure. The obtained values of acceleration and displacement responses of the structure were, finally, compared with the values obtained in case of applying acceleration-time histories generated in the frequency domain to the structure.

In this paper, analytical models for reinforced concrete shear wall systems designed based on Korean Building Code (KBC2009) are proposed, which have special and semi-special seismic details and are compared with experimental results for a verification of analytical models. In addition, semi-special seismic details aimed to improve constructability and enhance economic efficiency were proposed and evaluated. The analytical models were performed based on nonlinear static and dynamic analysis. Through the nonlinear analyses, two seismic details showed the similar seismic behavior from the cyclic test and the analytical models for the two different seismic details represented the behavior in terms of the initial stiffness, maximum strength and strength degradation. And newly proposed seismic details(semi-special) provided with similar hysterestic behavior as well as the maximum drift.

It is known that seismic performance of existing bridges having insufficient lateral confinements and lap-splices of longitudinal reinforcements at the base of column decreases dramatically. In this study, small-scaled model tests have been performed to confirm the seismic behaviors of RC bridge piers with various lap-splice lengths. The 8 test models have circular section with diameters of 0.65 m, 0.8 m, 1.0 m, and lap-splice lengths of B-class or C-class. The test results show that the failure modes of models are not depending on the lap-splice length itself but depend on the ratio of lap-splice length to diameter, and that the displacement ductility is also affected by this ratio.

The researches related to active control systems utilizing superelastic shape memory alloys (SMA) have been recently conducted to reduce critical damage due to lateral deformation after severe earthquakes. Although Superelastic SMAs undergo considerable inelastic deformation, they can return to original conditions without heat treatment only after stress removal. We can expect the mitigation of residual deformation owing to inherent recentering characteristics when these smart materials are installed at the part where large deformation is likely to occur. Therefore, the primary purpose of this research is to develop concentrically braced frames (CBFs) with superelastic SMA bracing systems and to evaluate the seismic performance of such frame structures. In order to investigate the inter-story drift response of CBF structures, 3- and 6-story buildings were design according to current design specifications, and then nonlinear time-history analyses were performed on numerical 2D frame models. Based on the numerical analysis results, it can be comparatively verified that the CBFs with superelastic SMA bracing systems have more structural advantages in terms of energy dissipation and recentering behavior than those with conventional steel bracing systems.

구조물에 대한 진동제어 기술은 지금까지 일반 라멘구조물을 대상으로 하여 많은 연구가 이루어져 왔다. 공간구조물은 일반 라멘구조물과는 다른 동적응답특성을 가지고 있기 때문에 일반 라멘구조물을 대상을 개발된 진동제어 기술을 공간구조물에 적용시키기에는 불확실한 요소가 존재하게 된다. 본 논문은 대공간구조물 중에서 자중이 비교적 커서 지진응답이 크게 나타나는 트러스 형태의 아치 구조물을 대상으로 하여 수동형 TMD 설치 위치 및 질량비에 따른 제어성능을 분석하였다. 예제 아치구조물의 TMD 설치 위치에 따른 진동응답 분석결과, 모드벡터가 가장 큰 위지에 TMD를 설치하는 것이 가장 제어성능이 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 TMD 의 질량비 변화에 따른 진동응답 분석결과, 질량비가 약 2%인 경우에 가장 효율적인 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

최근 들어 슬래브 차음성능에 대한 관심이 커지고 있으며 이에 대응하여 슬래브 두께 증가가 요구되고 있다. 또한 건축물의 효율적인 공간 활용을 위하여 장스팬의 바닥판 시스템이 많이 사용되고 있다. 이러한 요구를 만족하기 위해 개발된 바닥판 시스템중의 하나가 2방향 중공슬래브이다. 2방향 중공슬래브의 구조적 성능을 확인하기 위해서는 지진이 발생하였을 때의 안전성에 대한 검토가 반드시 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 재료비선형 시간이력해석을 통하여 2방향 중공슬래브의 지진하중에 대한 거동을 평가하였다. 효율적인 시간이력해석을 위하여 기존에 제안된 등가플레이트 모델을 사용하였고, 또한 유효보폭법을 적용한 비선형 모델을 이용하여 2방향 중공슬래브를 적용한 예제구조물의 내진성능을 평가하였다. 이를 통하여 2방향 중공슬래브를 사용한 구조물이 동일한 슬래브 두께의 일반 플랫 플레이트 구조물에 비하여 내진성능이 저하되지 않음을 확인 할 수 있었다.

본 연구에서는 시간종속요소를 이용하여 상부벽식-하부골조구조가 고려된 중 저층 철근콘크리트 구조물의 동적응답을 조사하였다. 시간종속요소란 사용자가 원하는 시간간격에서 부재를 활성화할 수 있는 진보된 요소로써 기존의 수행되었던 실험을 통해 가장 우수한 성능을 보인 채널형 비좌굴가새가 해석에서 보강요소로 고려되었다. 시간종속요소로 고려된 비좌굴가새는 1차 지진하중에 의해 구조물이 손상된 후에 2차 지진하중이 발생하기 전에 모멘트골조에 설치, 보강된 것으로 가정되었다. 이러한 가정을 바탕으로 내진설계가 고려되지 않은 5층 콘크리트 건물에 연속지진하중의 적용을 통하여 시간종속요소의 영향에 따라 구조물의 동적응답을 비교하였다. 2차 지진파가 발생했을 때 비좌굴가새를 활성화시키는 것은 1차 지진하중에 의해 손상이 집중된 모멘트골조의 변형을 크게 감소시키는 것으로 조사되었다. 그러나 전단벽시스템은 BRB시스템이 활성화된 이후에도 손상이 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 모멘트골조의 보강효과에 비해 전단벽시스템의 누적손상이 매우 미세하기 때문에 연속지진하중에 대한 BRB시스템은 효과적인 보강방법으로 조사되었다.

철근콘크리트 건축물에서 비내력벽(Masonry Infill Walls)은 내부 칸막이벽이나 중저층 규모의 건물 외벽에 흔히 사용된다. 그렇지만 대부분의 경우에 비내력벽은 비구조체이므로 구조설계시 건물의 모형화에서 무시된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 비내력벽을 보편화된 모형화 방법인 등가의 대각 압축 스트럿(Equivalent Diagonal Strut)으로 고려하여 비내력벽의 유무에 따른 저층 철근콘크리트 건축물의 전체적인 지진거동의 양상을 평가하고자 하였다. 해석결과로 비내력벽을 고려하면 시스템의 추가적인 강도 및 강성을 확보하여 층간변위비를 줄일 수 있으나 진동주기가 짧아져서 설계단계에서 고려한 지진하중보다 큰 하중을 받게 된다. 연약층이 있는 모델의 경우에는 기둥에 소성거동이 집중됨을 알 수 있으며 부분적인 붕괴가 전체 시스템의 붕괴 원인의 가능성을 가진다.

프리캐스트 콘크리트 골조에서 실물크기의 보-기둥 접합부 실험체 5개를 대상으로 반복가력 실험을 수행하였다. 지진하중을 받는 골조를 대상으로 1개의 일체식 실험체와 4개의 프리캐스트 실험체를 포함하여 5개의 1/2스케일의 내부 보-기둥 접합부를 대상으로 하였다.주요 변수는 보의 구조적 연속성을 확보하기 위한 접합부의 형태와 접합부의 특별한 보강형태(섬유콘크리트와 횡보강근)로 하였다. 실험체는 강기둥-약보 개념에 따라 설계하였다. 보 철근은 접합부에 큰 비탄성 전단력이 작용할 경우 보에 소성힌지가 발생하도록 계획하였다. 접합부의 성능평가는 접합부의 강도, 강성, 에너지 소산능력과 층간변위비로 평가하였다. 실험결과 실험체의 파괴는 보의 소성힌지부에서 파괴되었다. 보-기둥 접합부의 성능은 대체적으로 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 접합부의 강도는 일체식 RC 구조의 비해 1.15배 정도 향상되었다. 층간변위 3.5%때의 강도에서 실험체는 ECC의 인장변형능력과 철골연결재의 항복에 의해 연성거동 하였다.

지진에 의한 구조물의 응답을 저감시키기 위하여 다양한 면진장치가 사용되고 있으며 면진장치가 설치된 구조물은 고유주기가 길어져서 지진파의 탁월 주기를 벗어나게 된다. 대공간 구조물의 상부(지붕)구조인 트러스 아치는 하부구조인 기둥에 의하여 지지되는 경우가 있을 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 하부 기둥에 따른 면진 트러스 아치구조물의 거동을 분석하고자 한다. 면진장치를 대공간 구조물에 적용할 경우에 수평지진하중에 의하여 수평방향 지진응답이 저감되는 것은 물론 면진장치의 수직강성으로 인하여 수직응답도 현저하게 저감되는 것을 알 수 있었다. 하부의 기둥 강성이 큰 경우에 트러스 아치의 거동은 기둥 없이 트러스 아치가 지반에 직접 지지되는 트러스 아치의 거동과 유사하게 나타나고 있다. 또한 하부구조의 강성이 비교적 작은 대공간구조물에 면진장치를 적용할 경우에는 지진응답에 대한 우수한 제어 성능을 얻을 수 있을 것이다.